Halldor Laxness

Independent People

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From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel-funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant (Annie Proulx)-at last available to contemporary American readers.Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-76792-3
EAN: 9780679767923
Produktnummer: 19333596
Verlag: Vintage Books N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 512 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.7 cm 465 g
Gewicht: 465

Über den Autor

Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than sixty books, including novels short stories, essays, poems, plays and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.